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Looks like this is the reason O'Keefe has been tweeting about having done this. He's been trying to do damage control because he knew this article was coming out this month.
Note: the article has much, much more than just info on O'Keefe's latest ploy. Mayer digs into Brock's network and into the conservative American Rising as well.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself
Hey, Dana, a voice began. The caller sounded to her like an older American male. My name is, uh, Victor Kesh. Im a Hungarian-American who represents a, uh, foundation . . . that would like to get involved with you and aid what you do in fighting for, um, European values. He asked Geraghty for the name of someone he could talk to about supporting you guys and coördinating with you on some of your efforts. Requesting a callback, he left a phone number with a 914 area codeWestchester County.
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The accidental recording reached farcical proportions when Kesh announced that he was opening Geraghtys LinkedIn page on his computer. He planned to check her résumé and leverage the information to penetrate the Soros octopus. Kesh said, Shes probably going to call me back, and if she doesnt I can create other points of entry. Suddenly, Kesh realized that by opening Geraghtys LinkedIn page he had accidentally revealed his own LinkedIn identity to her. (LinkedIn can let users see who has looked at their pages.) Whoa! an accomplice warned. Log out! The men anxiously reassured one another that no one checks their LinkedIn account anyway. It was a little chilling to hear this group of men talking about me as a point of entry, Geraghty says. Butnot to sound ageistit was clear that these people were not used to the technology.
Geraghty forwarded the voice-mail recording to Chris Stone, the president of the Open Society Foundations. The Watergate burglars look good compared to these guys, Stone told me last month. These guys cant even figure out how to use an Internet browser, let alone conduct an undercover operation. You read the transcript and you cant help but laugh. He went on, But the issues here arent funny. Theres some kind of dirty-tricks operation in play against us.
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OKeefe portrays himself as a rigorous journalist who is dedicated to furthering a more ethical and transparent society. He refuses, however, to be transparent about who is funding him. According to tax records obtained by PRWatch.org, an investigative watchdog group run by the Center for Media and Democracy, in recent years hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to Project Veritas have come through a fund in Alexandria, Virginia, called Donors Trust, which specializes in hiding the money trails of conservative philanthropists. In its promotional materials, Donors Trust says that it will keep your charitable giving private, especially gifts funding sensitive or controversial issues. The records obtained by PRWatch.org also show that one donor, a conservative political activist in Wisconsin, contributed fifty thousand dollars just before Project Veritas undertook a sting of one of his political enemiesa state senator.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Not by New Yorker standards anyway, but an interesting read. In another thread the other day someone was asking how he made a living. The article says his organization took in more than $2million last year from -- somewhere. No one has to disclose who is funding his quasi-legal but completely sleazy operations.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)I like that Mayer points out how 'dark money' is behind O'Keefe.
Agree with you about wanting more info on where he gets his funding.
That's why I included the paragraph that that has some of the scant info about that.